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Free textbooks can be reality for OSU students
OSU Bookstore-sponsored contest will award students $500 toward textbook purchase
Students planning on spending their Christmas cash on expensive textbooks may want to think twice.
Thanks to the OSU Bookstore and Used Textbook Association, students may get to spend that cash on something else!
Now through Dec. 21, all currently enrolled OSU students can enter online to win one of ten $500 prizes for textbooks next term.
The problem with lecture learning
Various learning styles recognized, several ways to adapt teaching to compensate
On Nov. 2 professors from the University of Portland, Joanna Kaakinen and Ellyn Arwood, came to Oregon State University to present "Visual Teaching in an Auditory World."
The lecture highlighted today's learning environment, how it is centered around lectures and how information is lost to the student.
Preparation puts 'Angels' on scene
University Theatre puts on new play, "Angels in America," starting Nov. 8 in LaSells Stewart Center
After a month of preparation, University Theatre began performing "Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes" on Nov. 8.
Part One of the play, "Millennium Approaches," crosses countless borders, engaging the audience with topics regarding sexual identity, drug addiction, the AIDS epidemic and religious beliefs.
Access denied: universities crack down
Programs like Ruckus attempt to implement alternative to illegal downloading on campus
Napster paved the way for campus downloading.
Because of controversy surrounding Napster, file-sharing programs have become more prominent than they once were.
"I use Limewire," said Brendon Blaustein, a pre-pharmacy major. "You can find a lot of music and other forms of media on it that you can't find anywhere else.
It's science for your stomach
Second lecture in 'Food for Thought' series breaks down significance of gastronomy
Rachel Alkeny of Australia's University of Adelaide visited Corvallis Thursday afternoon as part of the "Food for Thought: History, Technology, Gastronomy" lecture series sponsored by Outreach in Biotechnology and the OSU Horning Endowment in the Humanities.
Sustainability takes strides on campus
KEEN comes to campus, offers opportunity to win $25,000 for sustainability organizations
Sometimes being green pays off in ways other than fresh air and lower energy usage.
Sometimes being green can win some green as well.
On Monday, Nov. 5, KEEN Inc. came to OSU to talk about its newest project, Hybrid.STAND.
"KEEN Inc., a Portland, Ore. based leader in hybrid outdoor performance products, including footwear, socks and bags, is all about playing in the outdoors," said Carey Kerns, a public relations employee for KEEN.
Homesickness may get best of students
Students encouraged to get involved on campus to fight winter-time college blues
It's that time in the term when school is starting to get the best of students. Late night study sessions are becoming normal, and wild nights are starting to take their toll.
Students may also be feeling bouts of homesickness. Spending seven weeks in a new place can be exciting but also difficult at the same time.
NASA interns jump from space suits to Saturn
Oregon NASA Space Grant Student Symposium
It turns out that NASA needs an engineer for every conceivable task.
On Wednesday, the Oregon NASA Space Grant 2007 Student Symposium was held in the MU, and featured research from 2007 NASA student interns.
The symposium featured both oral and poster presentations from Oregon students.
